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long time absence from the forum, seems you were busy setting up the new radarsYes 26 new ones
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Thank you so much , yes at last loolwelcome back .... posting at the forum after a long time ...
Hahaha no, actually I was busy with different stuff happening in lifelong time absence from the forum, seems you were busy setting up the new radars
Does the HQ-9 have anti-ballistic missile capability?
This will further increase Pak's surveillance/monitoring capabilities of its skiesYes 26 new ones
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HQ-19 if has similar specifications like Thaad would take care of most ballistic threats that India can come up with. Two stage missile with a kinetic vehicle would have a high speed sufficient for bm interception
Another emerging threat however is hypersonic cruise missiles. The targets would be around mach8 range like Zircon. Thaad is high altitude and kinetic vehicle may not have same maneuvrability to hit this type of target flying around 25km altitude. There should be another endoatmospheric interceptor sam system to complement this.
When I looked at Buk M3 it says the max engagement target velocity is about mach 8.8. The missile has a speed about mach 4.6 and it can engage targets at those lower altitudes. There can be improvements like a much smaller warhead with shaped charge to reduce the weight of the missile if kinetic kill that eliminates the warhead weight completely is not possible. Also it is controlled aerodynamically by fins. The missile was mainly designed against high and continiously maneuvering targets like airplanes but it can be modified for anti hcm role which requires high g but not continious maneuvering since cm with hypersonic speed cant fix its course back within time and will miss the target. It would have a quasi ballistic trajectory with not much maneuvering around.
Fin size can be reduced and thrust vector control can be added. That would reduce aero-friction further increasing the speed of the missile. It can engage mach8-9 targets like hypersonic cms better if developed further in my opinion.
Buk missile system - Wikipedia
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Best ofcourse would be to gain indigeneous capability for such systems but this would be a step towards that.
Buk is old technology and claimed the offshoot of it is Ly-80 which is claimed to be joint Russian /Chinese
anyway China has now HQ-9 add on HQ-26, HQ-29 etc plus19 which is suppose to complete the layer defense against theater as well intercontinental plus hyper
there were AD tests a month or so ago of something. You can check NOTAMS to verify .No indication yet of what is coming ??